Currently labour is more important, but historically ownership of land has been more important. This can be bought with money gained through labour, but also conquered.

Also, currently, it is extremely easy for almost everyone in the world to make a living, owing to new technology which has massively expanded production over the last 200 years. There is almost no starvation in the world. This will not last forever, as human population catches up to the resources available, and to a lesser extent as this production depletes or damages the earth.

No, I'd like the same feature that the Office Outlook desktop client has: to subscribe to and view news feeds. If it's integrated into the mail reading experience it's more likely that I (or anyone else, I suspect) will follow the news of interest than if it's a separate site like Google Reader. Just a thought.

They put this in in Outlook 2007 but it was very broken and they never bothered to fix it.

It wasn't integrated with Exchange so if the particular machine with the RSS feeds was not on you will miss RSS feeds, and if more than one instance of the software has the same RSS feeds you get duplication.

The only way to get this to work properly is to put it into Exchange and their consumer email. But they have not bothered to do this since Outlook 2007, and there is nothing about this in Exchange 2013 that I can see, and I am not confident about expecting anything this decade.

I am not getting problems with IE10 font rendering on Win8. It does not seem bad and with IE and Firefox side by side they seem almost identical.

Except for wrong colors in IE because it does color management very badly.

The text in Windows desktop and in the Metro start screen is mostly rendered well, must be with cleartype. However from time to time a notification shows with extremely badly rendered greyscale anti-aliased text (e.g. on the login screen, power button, menu to select sleep, restart etc.).

I have not used any metro apps yet. But Microsoft advertises the Surface as a "cleartype" screen, so presumably it is available for programs to use?

Suppose I have a VOIP app running in metro, while I am working in the desktop, and someone calls me. How will I be notified?

Suppose I have a VOIP app running in the desktop, while I am working in metro, and someone calls me. How will I be notified?

So I agree that cleartype has a shelf life, but it will still be valuable for quite a few years.

It will no longer be necessary when screen resolutions (pixels/inch) double (will take 10 years at a guess, going by historical exponential rates), or if OLED takes over (noone will bother to write new algorithms for different subpixel patterns).

For the lifetime of Windows 8 it will still be very valuable - except on the highest end devices. And so it's a major omission for Metro to leave it out.

Cameras will not add support before photoshop does. If CS6 does not support JPEG XR, we can forget about the format for another 2 years.

The web has more fundamental problems than image compression. Many browsers (including IE9, chrome) do not have working color management. I.e. these browsers cannot even display JPEG (or any image or colored object) yet.

The first step is for Adobe to adopt the format. It has started to in some products, but is not in the current version of Photoshop. Is it in Photoshop CS6 does anyone know?

Once this happens, I think it will catch on quickly with photographers. For storing images at high quality (>8bit per pixel mainly, also good compression options).

Dec 09, 2011 at 7:19 AM, ScanIAm wrote

So apparently, every organized group of people find it neccessary to start a food/toy drive for the holidays.  I've been hassled, daily, by my employer, my client, and now people walking through the neighborhood.  I can't go into a grocery store without being accosted by some idiot ringing a bell asking for money, and just this week, my city decided to start fining people for their trash can placement.

So, apparently, society doesn't run so smoothly when you starve it for revenue.  Charity might be able to help those in need, but it's inefficient, annoying, and done more to boost the ego of the givers than help the recievers.

 

The US government is not starved for revenue. It collects and spends about 40% of GDP http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/us_20th_century_chart.html

If you would give up a significant fraction of your income just to see a marginal reduction in the work of charities because they annoy you, you are an unusual case. But even then, it would likely be cheaper for you to hire someone to accompany you and deal with soliciting charities rather than pay the extra tax.

Also Windows 8 is not ready for a multiple architecture world. Metro is, using WinRT. But there isn't a universal distribution and application management framework on the desktop that invisibly accommodates x86 and ARM.

Of course what may happen is that, since Metro is suited to tablets, and tablets will be mostly ARM, Microsoft ends up having one OS (Metro) for ARM tablets, one OS (Windows desktop) for Intel (tablets/notebooks/desktops), and one OS (Windows phone 8) for phones. So we will wait for Windows 9 for unification.

Personally I expect to run Windows 8 on an Intel tablet (desktop for desktop, metro for tablet) and also on a phone, but for most consumers I think we'll have the segregation I described.

It suggests a world without trade.

Not too craze, since species up to and including the evolution of humans largely got by without trade.

But a society that does not trade will operate at a much lower level of output and 1. people in that society will not be happy and may introduce trade and 2. the society will be taken over by societies that have trade.

On point 2, actually a small trading nation could probably conquer the non-trading rest of the world in a short space of time as the rest would only be able to make primitive weapons if any.

@kettch: Sure, the high end will benefit from RAW formats. DNG can help to standardize RAW formats, sure. But a RAW format is not a (processed) image format and we need a good image format. It doesn't make sense for Adobe to limit the quality of its image formats just so they doesn't eat into RAW usage.

I would like to convert my 70Mb TIFF files into something more manageable, say 10-20Mb, retaining 16bits per channel.

What it needs is a move from Microsoft or Adobe. Adobe could have native support in Photoshop etc., Microsoft could make it the default format for some Windows/Office applications.

At the moment I can't even find a plug-in for Photoshop CS5.